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Shloka प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीर्ब्रह्मचारिव्रते स्थितः | मनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्त आसीत मत्परः ||६-१४|| Transliteration praśāntātmā vigatabhīrbrahmacārivrate sthitaḥ . manaḥ saṃyamya maccitto yukta āsīta matparaḥ ||6-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 6.14. Being calm-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of celibacy; controlling mind fully; let the master of Yoga remain, fixing his mind in Me and having Me [alone] as his supreme goal. Shri Purohit Swami 6.14 With peace in his heart and nor fear, observing the vow of celibacy, with mind controlled and fixed on Me, let the student lose himself in contemplation of Me....

Shloka न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः | न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ||५-१४|| Transliteration na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ . na karmaphalasaṃyogaṃ svabhāvastu pravartate ||5-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 5.14. The Lord (Self) acires neither the state of being a creator of the world, nor the actions, nor the connecting with the fruits of their actions. But it is the inherent nature [in It] that exerts. Shri Purohit Swami 5....

Shloka न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा | इति मां योऽभिजानाति कर्मभिर्न स बध्यते ||४-१४|| Transliteration na māṃ karmāṇi limpanti na me karmaphale spṛhā . iti māṃ yo.abhijānāti karmabhirna sa badhyate ||4-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 4.14. Actions do not stain Me; nor do I have a desire for the fruits [of actions] also. Whosoever comprehends Me as such, he is not bound by actions. Shri Purohit Swami 4.14 My actions do not fetter Me, nor do I desire anything that they can bring....

Shloka अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः | यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ||३-१४|| Transliteration annādbhavanti bhūtāni parjanyādannasambhavaḥ . yajñādbhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karmasamudbhavaḥ ||3-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 3.14. From food arise the things that are born; from the rain-cloud the food arises; from the sacrifice the rain-cloud arises; the sacrifices arises from action; Shri Purohit Swami 3.14 All creatures are the product of food, food is the product of rain, rain comes by sacrifice, and sacrifice is the noblest form of action....

Shloka मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः | आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||२-१४|| Transliteration mātrāsparśāstu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ . āgamāpāyino.anityāstāṃstitikṣasva bhārata ||2-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 2.14. O son of Kunti ! But the touches with the matras cause the [feelings of] cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they are of the nature of coming and going and are transient. Forbear them, O Descendent of Bharata ! Shri Purohit Swami 2.14 Those external relations which bring cold and heat, pain and happiness, they come and go; they are not permanent....

Shloka ततः श्वेतैर्हयैर्युक्ते महति स्यन्दने स्थितौ | माधवः पाण्डवश्चैव दिव्यौ शङ्खौ प्रदध्मतुः ||१-१४|| Transliteration tataḥ śvetairhayairyukte mahati syandane sthitau . mādhavaḥ pāṇḍavaścaiva divyau śaṅkhau pradadhmatuḥ ||1-14|| Translations Dr.S.Sankaranarayan 1.14. Then, mounted on mighty chariot, yoked with white horses, Madhava (Krsna) and the son of Pandu (Arjuna) blew their heavenly conch-shells; Shri Purohit Swami 1.14 Then seated in their spacious war chariot, yoked with white horses, Lord Shri Krishna and Arjuna sounded their divine shells....

Text: प्र ते ब्रवीमि तदु मे निबोध स्वर्ग्यमग्निं नचिकेतः प्रजानन् । अनन्तलोकाप्तिमथो प्रतिष्ठां विद्धि त्वमेतं निहितं गुहायाम् ॥ १४ ॥ pra te bravīmi tadu me nibodha svargyamagniṃ naciketaḥ prajānan | anantalokāptimatho pratiṣṭhāṃ viddhi tvametaṃ nihitaṃ guhāyām || 14 || 14. (Death says) I will tell thee well; attend to me, Oh Nachiketas, I know the fire leading to heaven; know the fire which leads to heaven and also the support of the universe and which is seated in the cavity....

Text: अन्यत्र धर्मादन्यत्राधर्मादन्यत्रास्मात्कृताकृतात् । अन्यत्र भूताच्च भव्याच्च यत्तत्पश्यसि तद्वद ॥ १४ ॥ anyatra dharmādanyatrādharmādanyatrāsmātkṛtākṛtāt | anyatra bhūtācca bhavyācca yattatpaśyasi tadvada || 14 || 14. What thou seest other than virtue and vice, other than what is made and what is not, other than the past and the future, tell me that. Shankara’s Commentary: If I am worthy, and you are, Oh Baghavan, pleased with me: other than virture, i.e., different from the performance of acts enjoined by the Sastras, their fruits and their requisites and similarly from vice; other than what is made, i....

Text: उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत । क्शुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति ॥ १४ ॥ uttiṣṭhata jāgrata prāpya varānnibodhata | kśurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā durgaṃ pathastatkavayo vadanti || 14 || 14. Arise, awake; having reached the great, learn; the edge of a razor is sharp and impassable; that path, the intelligent say, is hard to go by. Shankara’s Commentary: Having thus merged into the purusha, the atman, all the three, i....

Text: यथोदकं दुर्गे वृष्टं पर्वतेषु विधावति । एवं धर्मान् पृथक् पश्यंस्तानेवानुविधावति ॥ १४ ॥ yathodakaṃ durge vṛṣṭaṃ parvateṣu vidhāvati | evaṃ dharmān pṛthak paśyaṃstānevānuvidhāvati || 14 || As rain water, (falling) on the mountain top, runs down over the rocks on all sides; similarly, he who sees difference (between visible forms) runs after them in various directions. NOTE: Tranlsation and commentary is missing from the book. The alternate translation for the verse presented above is from Swami Paramananda....

Text: तदेतदिति मन्यन्तेऽनिर्देश्यं परमं सुखम् । कथं नु तद्विजानीयां किमु भाति विभाति वा ॥ १४ ॥ tadetaditi manyante’nirdeśyaṃ paramaṃ sukham | kathaṃ nu tadvijānīyāṃ kimu bhāti vibhāti vā || 14 || 14. They think of that as this—the indescribable highest bliss. How shall I know that, whether that which shines is seen clearly or not. Shankara’s Commentary: That bliss of the knowledge of the atman which is indescribable, highest and which, though beyond the speech and mind of men, under the sway of Prakriti, they, the Brahmins freed from all desire, describe as this, i....

Text: यदा सर्वे प्रमुच्यन्ते कामा येऽस्य हृदि श्रिताः । अथ मर्त्यो’मृतो भवत्यत्र ब्रह्म समश्नुते ॥ १४ ॥ yadā sarve pramucyante kāmā ye’sya hṛdi śritāḥ | atha martyo’mṛto bhavatyatra brahma samaśnute || 14 || 14. When all desires clinging to the heart of one fall off, then the mortal becomes immortal and here attains Brahman. Shankara’s Commentary: When of the person thus seeing the truth, all desires, which were clinging to the intellect of the knower before he attained the knowledge, fall off from want of anything else to be desired (for intellect and not the atman is the seat of desires, and also from another sruti which says desire, volition, etc....

Text: Rig Veda Book 1 Hymn 16 आ तवा वहन्तु हरयो वर्षणं सोमपीतये | इन्द्र तवा सूरचक्षसः || इमा धाना घर्तस्नुवो हरी इहोप वक्षतः | इन्द्रं सुखतमे रथे || इन्द्रं परातर्हवामह इन्द्रं परयत्यध्वरे | इन्द्रं सोमस्य पीतये || उप नः सुतमा गहि हरिभिरिन्द्र केशिभिः | सुते हि तवाहवामहे || सेमं न सतोमं आ गह्युपेदं सवनं सुतम | गौरो नत्र्षितः पिब || इमे सोमास इन्दवः सुतासो अधि बर्हिषि | तानिन्द्र सहसेपिब || अयं ते सतोमो अग्रियो हर्दिस्प्र्गस्तु शन्तमः | अथा सोमंसुतं पिब || विश्वमित सवनं सुतमिन्द्रो मदाय गछति | वर्त्रहा सोमपीतये || सेमं नः काममा पर्ण गोभिरश्वैः शतक्रतो | सतवाम तवा सवाध्यः ||...

Text: Rig Veda Book 2 Hymn 14 अध्वर्यवो भरतेन्द्राय सोममामत्रेभिः सिञ्चता मद्यमन्धः | कामी हि वीरः सदमस्य पीतिं जुहोत वर्ष्णे तदिदेश वष्टि || अध्वर्यवो यो अपो वव्रिवांसं वर्त्रं जघानाशन्येव वर्क्षम | तस्मा एतं भरत तद्वशायनेष इन्द्रो अर्हति पीतिमस्य || अध्वर्यवो यो दर्भीकं जघान यो गा उदाजदप हि वलं वः | तस्मा एतमन्तरिक्षे न वातमिन्द्रं सोमैरोर्णुत जूर्न वस्त्रैः || अध्वर्यवो य उरणं जघान नव चख्वांसं नवतिं चबाहून | यो अर्बुदमव नीचा बबाधे तमिन्द्रं सोमस्यभ्र्थे हिनोत || अध्वर्यवो यः सवश्नं जघान यः शुष्णमशुषं यो वयंसम | यः पिप्रुं नमुचिं यो रुधिक्रां तस्मा इन्द्रायान्धसो जुहोत || अध्वर्यवो यः शतं शम्बरस्य पुरो बिभेदाश्मनेव पूर्वीः | यो वर्चिनः शतमिन्द्रः सहस्रमपावपद भरतासोममस्मै || अध्वर्यवो यः शतमा सहस्रं भूम्या उपस्थे....

Text: Rig Veda Book 3 Hymn 14 आ होता मन्द्रो विदथान्यस्थात सत्यो यज्वा कवितमः सवेधाः | विद्युद्रथः सहसस पुत्रो अग्निः शोचिष्केशः पर्थिव्यां पाजो अश्रेत || अयामि ते नमौक्तिं जुषस्व रतावस्तुभ्यं चेतते सहस्वः | विद्वाना वक्षि विदुषो नि षत्सि मध्य आ बर्हिरूतये यजत्र || दरवतां त उषसा वाजयन्ती अग्ने वातस्य पथ्याभिरछ | यत सीमञ्जन्ति पूर्व्यं हविर्भिरा वन्धुरेव तस्थतुर्दुरोणे || मित्रश्च तुभ्यं वरुणः सहस्वो.अग्ने विश्वे मरुतः सुम्नमर्चन | यच्छोचिषा सहसस पुत्र तिष्ठा अभि कषितीः परथयन सूर्यो नॄन || वयं ते अद्य ररिमा हि काममुत्तानहस्ता नमसोपसद्य | यजिष्ठेन मनसा यक्षि देवानस्रेधता मन्मना विप्रो अग्ने || तवद धि पुत्र सहसो वि पूर्वीर्देवस्य यन्त्यूतयो वि वाजाः | तवं देहि सहस्रिणं रयिं नो....